Ed Klein's info is probably right, tho.
She can't help it. Playing the victim is reflexive with missus clinton.
But she definitely has the problem you allude to:
Victim and commander-in-chief are mutually exclusive constructs.
One thing missus clinton must do is get back the only real swing voter, the white woman.
In the past, playing the victim is all she would have had to do.
But, unfortunately for hillary,
(and--sweet irony--thanx to the clintons' utter failure)
9/11 turned the white woman red.
(See: WHY HILLARY MUST NOT WIN. WHY HILLARY CANNOT WIN.)
hillary clinton--missus bill clinton--is weak.
And she will always be perceived as weak.
The white woman--the security mom--will never ever entrust her kids to this pathetic creature.
And oh, btw, missus clinton's dumb comments about 'fear' (a lame imitation of FDR)
is an attempt to blunt this issue with the security mom.
Won't work. If anything, it will make her look clueless as well as weak.
These are not ordinary times. America is waging the global War on Terror; the uncharted territory of asymmetric netherworlds is the battlefield; the enemy is brutal, subhuman; the threat of global conflagration is real. Defeating the enemy isn't sufficient. For America to prevail, she must also defeat a retrograde, misogynous mindset. To successfully prosecute the War on Terror, it is essential that the collective patriarchal islamic culture perceives America as politically and militarily strong. Condi Rice excepted, this requirement presents an insurmountable hurdle for any female presidential candidate, and especially missus clinton, historically antimilitary--(an image, incidentally, that is only enhanced today by her clumsy, termagant parody of Thatcher), forever the pitiful victim, and, according to Dick Morris, "the biggest dove in the clinton administration." It is ironic that had the clintons not failed utterly to fight terrorism... not failed to take bin Laden from Sudan... not failed repeatedly to decapitate a nascent, still stoppable al Qaeda... the generic female president as a construct would still be viable... missus clinton's obstacles would be limited largely to standard-issue clintonisms: corruption, abuse, malpractice, malfeasance, megalomania, rape and treason... and, in spite of Juanita Broaddrick, or perhaps because of her, Rod Lurie would be reduced to perversely hawking the "First Gentleman" instead of the "Commander-in-Chief." Mia T, 10.02.05
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... While America appears not to be ready for a female president under any circumstances, the post-9/11 realities pose special problems for a female presidential candidate. Add to these the problems unique to missus clinton. The reviews make the mistake of focusing on the problems of the generic female presidential candidate running during ordinary times.